The conversation about music here is built without dry theory: listeners will be helped to catch the characters hidden in the scores of Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Massenet, Cherepnin, and Evgeny Petrov. Before a grand symphonic evening, it is especially pleasant to attend a conversation after which the music sounds clearer, deeper, and closer. This meeting is structured as a lively introduction to narrative academic music, where behind the orchestral colors, characters, conflicts, feelings, and entire worlds emerge. Instead of a dry analysis of terms, a clear and engaging path to the perception of compositions is offered, in which male and female images are particularly vividly revealed. At the center of the discussion are scores from the 19th to the 21st centuries, related to theatricality, romantic thinking, and the power of programmatic beginnings. The focus will be on the pages of Beethoven, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Massenet, Nikolai Cherepnin, and Evgeny Petrov. Listeners will be shown how music can paint heroes, convey inner tension, noble impulse, passion, anxiety, and fragility without a single spoken word. This format helps to hear in familiar titles not only cultural landmarks but also the living action that unfolds in sound. A special interest in the meeting is added by the participation of the program's author, Larisa Popkova, and composer Evgeny Petrov. One voice here is connected with musicological commentary, the other - with the composer's perspective from within. Thanks to this, the conversation becomes substantial: it discusses both romanticism as an era of synthesis of the arts and how theatricalization, contrast, imagery, and dramaturgy work in music. Complex things are explained accessibly, but without simplification, so the event will be interesting both for those who have long attended concerts and for those who are just beginning to listen to the academic repertoire. Other events in St. Petersburg can be found on KudaGo.